Embedded environments (e.g. clausal complements
of attitude predicates) provide a window into
the nature of pronouns: pronouns in such
environments not only exhibit classic
distinctions, such as that between bound and
referential pronouns; they also participate in
a broader range of phenomena, e.g. a
distinction between de se and de re readings
may emerge if they refer to the attitude
holder. This workshop aims at investigating
pronouns in such environments in order to shed
new light on interactions between (i.) their
syntactic properties (e.g. personal vs. clitic
vs. null vs. demonstrative pronouns) and (ii.)
their semantic properties (e.g. 'de se'
pronouns vs. syntactically bound 'de re'
pronouns vs. accidentally coreferring 'de re'
pronouns). The goal of this workshop is to
bring together recent advances on the behavior
of pronouns in embedded contexts and how it
bears on the correct analysis of pronominal
elements.

The workshop will be accompanied by a special
discussion session led by the main organisers.
In the current syntactic and semantic
literature, it is a controversial question
whether a unified treatment can be given for
certain subsets of words that fall into the
traditional category 'pronoun' (e.g. the subset
of personal pronouns). The aim of this special
session is to engage in a general discussion on
possible research directions that emerge from
investigating the behavior of pronouns in
embedded contexts.

We invite submissions for 30-minute talks plus
10 minutes for discussion. Abstracts must be
anonymous, in PDF format, 2 pages (A4 or
letter), in a font size no less then 12pt, and
with margins of 1 inch/2.5cm. Please submit
abstracts via EasyAbs (see link below) no later
than July 20th 2014.

Ideal submissions to this workshop might
address (but are not limited to) the following
topics (individually or in combination):

- Are there novel empirical findings (e.g. from
psycholinguistic testing / corpus work /
diachronic investigations) that shed light on
the distribution of different pronouns
(e.g.personal vs demonstrative vs logophoric)
in embedded clauses?

- What types of pronouns can refer to the
'speaker' in Free Indirect Discourse (e.g. is
there a difference between null vs. overt vs.
personal vs. demonstrative pronouns)?

- Which attitude predicates (think, convince,
regret, doubt, …) in matrix clauses give rise
to 'de se' readings on embedded pronouns, and
what other factors are involved (e.g. does
negation in the matrix clause have an impact on
the availability of de se readings)? Doesthe
type of embedded clause (root vs non-root,
factive vs non-factive) impact the availability
of de se vs de re readings for embedded
pronouns?

- Whenever there is an antecedent in the matrix
clause, does the acceptability of null vs
clitic vs personal vs demonstrative pronouns in
an embedded clause interact with the choice of
matrix predicate?

- Do we observe gender mismatch between a
matrix attitude holder and an embedded
pronoun? Does it interact with the de se / de
re distinction? (e.g. German ''Das Mädchen
glaubt, dass es/sie krank ist.'' = 'The
girl(neuter) believes that it/she is
sick.')

- How are person features interpreted in
embedded contexts? What does their
interpretation teach us on the notions of
indexicality and anaphoricity?

- What is the distribution and interpretation
of arbitrary pronouns in embedded contexts?

- What is the division of labour between narrow
grammar and pragmatics with respect to
(anti-)logophoricity?

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